Ken Briodagh interviews Jan Pleskac with Tropic Square live from embedded world 2025

Some “experts” in the embedded space will swear that systems based on open-source software or hardware can never be secure. At the same time, others will say that such a notion is pure nonsense.

To get a better feel for the argument and understand what is accurate and what is not, I spoke to Jan Pleskac, the Co-Founder and CTO of Tropic Square, on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

The company is a fabless semiconductor vendor that specializes in secure elements. Jan and I went through the process behind staying secure and the role that open source plays in it.

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, security is paramount. With countless new devices being connected to networks every second, it’s important to ensure these systems meet the critical and modern demands of transparency and trust.